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Saturday, September 10, 2005

"Lessons Under The Acacia Tree" from Reader's Digest>

This article is about a teacher who brought his students back to his hometown in Africa. He brought them through swamps, grasslands and huts made of dung.
This teachers name is Joseph Lekuton. During his childhood, he learnt to count by stacking tree branches. He wondered about school as he passed the acacia tree where a white lady scribbled lessons on a chalkboard. His father thought school was useless. He needed him and his other three boys to heard cattle. But when a new law required each nomadic family to send one child to school, Joseph's father reluctantly allowed him to go.
When Joeseph grew up, he decided to teach at America. His parents did not protest, but gave their blessings and told him to visit them soon, his mother told him many people went there and never came back. She told him not to become one of "them". As promised, he came back a few months later, brining with him his students from school.
Together, they ventured through rivers, grasslands, and amired the grazing wild animals. His also brought a laptop to show his people the wonders of technology.
In my opinion, Joseph Lekuton loves teacheing very much because he loves to share his knowledge to every one of his students. He brought them to his homeland and show them how he lived in his chldhood times. I think this kind of people can easily influence others.

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